The Carney government has approved the Crawford Nickel Project in northern Ontario, saying the mine will draw in $5 billion in investment and create 4,000 jobs during its construction and another 1,300 when it is fully operating. It marks the first mine Ottawa has approved under its new impact assessment process.
The open-pit site is located roughly 40 kilometres north of Timmins, Ont., and will extract nearly 90 million tonnes of nickel-cobalt annually, contributing $70 billion to Canada’s GDP over its expected 41-year lifespan.
